Hillsboro recorder., 1887-10-06
SOUTHERN BRIEFS.
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Social, Temperance and Religious Move
ments-Fires, Deaths and suicides-Iiaii-
road Operations and improvements.
For fear the harmony Of the state fair
will be disturbed, the Macon, Ga, au-
thorities will expel the Salvation Army.
Gen. Edward Hopkins, collector Of
customs for the district Of st. Johns,
Fla, died in Jacksonville in the seventy
seventh year of his age.
-Four stores at Seal near Columbus, Ga,
were burglarized. They were occu-
pied by B. NJ. Henry, E. +. Pye and
two were vacant. At Henry's store they
blew open the safe, but got only four
dollars.
The Augusta, Ga, Gazette had been
sold out to T. L. j. Miller, one of the
largest stockholders. As to the price
paid no one knows exactly, but II is said
IL did not exceed five thousand dollars.
Mr.. Miller is good business man, and
will make success of the paper.
BY some means the Thompson -Hous-
ton Electric Light Company's wires got
out OF order in Augusta, Ga, and set
fire to Lombard's foundry and the lower
market, in entirely different sections Of
the city. Both fires were, however, ex-
tingulshed before the arrival of the de-
partment.
A call for mass meeting has been is
sued and signed by large number of
prominent merchants of Nashville, Tenn,
to consider the new proposition to be
submitted by the Tennessee Midland
Railroad Company, and to protest against
the frauds committed by tine opponents
of the proposition voted on recently.
On the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, near
jackson, Tenn, AN entire passenger train,
except the engine, was hurled from
trestling while running forty-ive miles
an hour, and over thirty persons were in
jured, though, by what seems almost q
miracle, none were killed. The coaches
were thrown forty feet from the track
and some turned completely over.
The ladies' coach and sleeper of the
southbound train on the Alabama Great
Southern Railroad, were thrown from the
track, near Ft. Payne, Ala, by broken
rail. The coach was badly wrecked, and
eighteen people were badly injured, and
some Of them seriously. The sleeper was
only overturned and none Of the passen
gers on it were injured.
The people of Winchester, KY, are
jubilant over the prospect of having q
new railroad. The proposed line is, the
Louisville, Cincinnati & Virginia Rail
road and its termini will be Beatville,
Va, and Winchester, KY. 1t will form
q link in the great Louisville & Nashville
system. Ground has already been broken.
The contractors will have /, 1000 men at
work as soon as shanties for their accom-
mediation can be erected.
The last spike on the Kansas City,
Memphis & Birmingham Railroad was
driven by Congressman Allen, of Missis-
sippi, at Guin Station. President Geo.
III. Nettleton, accompanied by several Of
ficials of the road and several citizens Of
Kansas City and Memphis, arrived in
on the first through train over
the new road. The visitors were re.
ceived by committee from the Chamber
Of Commerce. The road is one of the
best built and equipped south of the Ohio
river.
The strike in the woollen mills of Louis.
vile, KY, which was begun two months
ago, has collapsed. The weayers de-
manded an increase Of wages and were
supported in their action by the Knights
Of Labor. The mill owners refused to
take back any Of the strikers who would
not sign an agreement to give up alic-
glance to the Knights and come back at
old wages. The mills were closed. Re-
Gently the employees began to seek their
old places, and nearly all the weayers
have agreed to the conditions.
DR.. James A. Gray died in Atlanta,
Ga. He was native Of Monroe county,
where he was born on the Goth of De-
cember, 1s49. lie was the son Of DIR.
Joseph Gray, prominent planter OF that
county. He began the study Of medicine,
matriculating at the Atlanta Medical Col.
lege, from which he graduated IN the
class Of 20. He took first honors in a
class which had forty-eight members. At
the time Of his death he was proctor Of
the faculty of the college. He was
Master Mason; a member and medical ex-
aminer Of Gate City Lodge X. Of II. was
surgeon Of the Atlanta Rifles and men,
Der Of the Atlanta Society Of Medicine.
Great distress prevails on both sides Of
the upper Rio Grande country, In Texas,
on account Of high water. It's said that
entire farms ore under water, and that
families residing near the river have been
washed out, and have lost all they had.
A large number Of these families h. We
lost their entire crops reaped during the
past season. The river has oyerfiowed
It's banks for miles, and looks like an
ocean. The water is still rising at
Brownsville. Edinburg and La Pueblo,
situated sixty miles above Brownsville,
have been washed from the face Of the
earth; and at Santa Maria the water Is
gradually making its way to destroy the
place. f@~'